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  • 10 months ago
The stars of the popular podcast The Read played the Bside with Essence
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00:00Hi, I'm Crystal and I'm Orlando Williams and this is the read taken on the b-side
00:08But ah here we go again meme is from what classic video game now it says ah shit here we go again
00:16The game is a Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
00:21San Andreas because that's the one with the lead black character
00:24Singer slash actor Ryan Tobey of Sister Act 2 fame went on to join a band in the early 2000s
00:31What is the name of that band? P.S. you get bonus points for singing one of their hit songs
00:37Is the city high? Is it what would you do if your son was at home?
00:44Now inside joke this is a song that we as a friend group randomly would sing all of the time
00:55How many black comic book characters can you name in 15 seconds?
00:59Storm, Black Panther, Blade, Bishop, Bumblebee, Namor, Black Manta, Static
01:14Oh he got one
01:14Does he count?
01:15Yeah
01:15He's Afro-Latino right?
01:16Spider-Man
01:17Okay ew
01:18Cause you said the other ones aren't this Black Panther
01:20Tell us who is the architect of these infamous reads
01:24Oh okay I get it
01:25Okay I don't even know if I can say this
01:27You musty mouthed, thought bop, bad bodied, syphilis, lipped, rectum, vomit, unimportant, ugly,
01:35monstrosity of a maggot-ass b****
01:38If you speak ill of my family again I will end you
01:43Um Blue Ivy?
01:44Bad bodied, syphilis, lipped, god damn
01:48This sounds like somebody on Instagram
01:49It sounds like somebody, yeah it sounds like somebody who started on Instagram
01:52and now is on a low budget reality show
01:54If you speak ill of my family again I will end you
01:57Cardi said it
01:58Cardi B does not know all these words
02:01A man said that to a woman?
02:05Joe Bud said it
02:07Did he?
02:10I feel like somebody said this to Wendy Williams
02:23I feel like I would have known if there were more syllables in some of those words
02:27They're actually so short the words I would have never
02:32Should have known
02:33All right
02:34You know what brother you're gonna hear yourself a lot from me lately
02:39Okay
02:39You're gonna hear yourself around the world because we have to explain brothers like you
02:42We do
02:43And we watched that movie Birth of a Nation
02:45And we saw that man walk his wife into that master's house
02:48You're that brother
02:49I've heard this one
02:50I have not
02:51I've heard this one
02:52I just don't remember who it was
02:54Is this about the guy who directed Birth of a Nation?
02:58Oh
02:59This is Monique
03:01I don't remember who she was talking to
03:02I want to say she was talking to Charlemagne
03:05Oh this is when she called him Lenard
03:11That was a great day
03:13That was really hilarious
03:14Yes
03:15By Leonard
03:16And I gotta call you by your name baby
03:18Because
03:18Lenard
03:18Lenard
03:19Okay
03:20Okay baby
03:20He's getting real special
03:22Lenard
03:22But we're gonna
03:23Okay Lenard
03:23No it is Lenard
03:24It is Lenard
03:25Who's the black man who won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics single-handedly
03:30crushing Hitler's propaganda about Aryans being the superior race?
03:35Just yelling
03:39All right
03:40I know my black history
03:41Oh that's it
03:42Looks like that's it
03:43Well this was fun
03:44I actually enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would
03:47Thanks Essence
03:47Props for the video game question
03:50Yeah and shout out to me for knowing it
03:51I didn't know the meme but I caught the video game
03:54Which that knowledge allowed me to get that win so I appreciated that
03:57And very proud of myself for knowing a black video game character who wasn't Black Panther

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